I must confess I do like conflict - not so much for the conflict itself, which I do find intriguing, but for the fact that conflict is the harbinger of newness... where old and stale are most vulnerable to a good churning.
In daily life, we are not permitted to be really great. We can be "great" with a small "g" by rallying for what is right and defending ourselves and others from what is wrong. We can, for instance, have a massive impact on our small, inconsequential worlds within the context of what is permissible at work or home. We can even touch others lives profoundly by coming to their assistance, opening doors of opportunity, providing a second and third chance for redemption, etc. But we cannot be truly great in the context of a reality that refuses to allow for turbulence and hates individualism.
This is why I am excited to see the old, settled world give up its ghost. I am frankly bored with it.
The current world-wide disorder is apt to get much wose before it gets any better. While the world markets rally fueled on false hope and pols rally with slogans worth so much dirt - on one last ditch scheme to bamboozle and fleece the last among the commoners - I am realistic about the actuality of the political-economic breakdown that is inevitable. And I welcome it. I pray for it to be a quick.
And when this occurs, there will be many like me who bid good riddance to this stale disordered reality. When this occurs, there will be many like me who will lay patiently for the proper moment to shine.
It is not tranquility we abhor, but the placid injustice of being tied to a dying-man's shell. Let him pass. He has lived a good and long life. Let him pass so that newness and vitality - greatness - might spring from his rotting corpse.
La frontera se viene.
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Truisms
"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood." - General George S. Patton
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - GK Chesterton
"This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities." - GK Chesterton
"Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." - GK Chesterton
"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish." - GK Chesterton
"Yes, something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power." - Camille Paglia
"[Republicans] represent the very elite who, year after year after year, have destroyed our Constitution, betrayed our rights and undermined our strength created by our people in the world." - Ambassador Alan Keyes
"The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog." - GK Chesterton
"This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities." - GK Chesterton
"Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." - GK Chesterton
"A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish." - GK Chesterton
"Yes, something very ugly has surfaced in contemporary American liberalism, as evidenced by the irrational and sometimes infantile abuse directed toward anyone who strays from a strict party line. Liberalism, like second-wave feminism, seems to have become a new religion for those who profess contempt for religion. It has been reduced to an elitist set of rhetorical formulas, which posit the working class as passive, mindless victims in desperate need of salvation by the state. Individual rights and free expression, which used to be liberal values, are being gradually subsumed to worship of government power." - Camille Paglia
"[Republicans] represent the very elite who, year after year after year, have destroyed our Constitution, betrayed our rights and undermined our strength created by our people in the world." - Ambassador Alan Keyes
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